There is only a small handful of classic graphs that show up in pediatrics – the height curve, weight curve, head circumference curve, and bilirubin curve. And they’re beautiful things to behold. But what those curves cannot depict, even with their wavy growth spurts, is the development of the human soul, how it reconfigures itself over and over through experiences that are, just like height and weight, common to us all. So, I have striven to capture the “growth curve of the soul” through sequential portraits of an anonymous girl, from the time she first emerges from the womb to when she graduates from college.
Archive for August, 2010
Pediatrics rotation ended with a bang (a really fun and rewarding case). Now I can blog again!
Without further ado …
Today, I’ve decided to put together a mini trivia-quiz. Having encountered many different Arabic surnames while in the hospital, I decided to take a look at words in the English language which derive from Arabic and have retained the definite particle “al” as the prefix. So, what are these words today?
1. Restoration or completion [al-jebr]
2. (Man of) Khwarizmi [al-Khwarizmi]
3. Powder used as eyeliner [al-kuhl], produced by sublimation of stibnite (i.e. distillate)
4. Transmutation [al-kimia]
5. Fodder [al-fasfasah]
6. Ashes of the saltwort plant [al-qily], or more generally, the process of roasting or frying in a pan
I stuck my foot so deep into my mouth that I burned my big toe on stomach acid. FML.